Analytical Chemist (m/w/d) - Food Fraud & Authenticity

Are you interested in high-quality, natural, and tasty nutrition?

We are! It’s our ambition to shape the future of nutrition.

Döhler is a leading global producer of natural ingredients and solutions for the food, beverage, lifestyle and nutrition industries. We use innovative technology to process plant-based raw materials and enrich products such as lifestyle drinks, cereals, dairy, and confectionery goods for almost every well-known brand. Close to 10.000 dedicated employees in more than 70 countries share one common goal - to ensure that millions of people around the world enjoy the products created by us.

We strive to inspire and empower our employees in everything we do, and we invite you to join our team – together WE BRING IDEAS TO LIFE.

Your Role:

• You bring your technical expertise to the Analytical Science department, especially in the areas of ion chromatography, elemental analysis, and classic wet chemical processes and expand this further
• You are characterized by a responsible way of working and a high level of quality awareness
• You interpret the results in the context of specified food fraud and authenticity guidelines and develop recommendations for action
• You carry out routine preventive maintenance work and ensure the quality of the analyzes
• You coordinate the analytical examinations of raw materials, semi-finished products and end products, carry them out independently and then interpret the results independently and competently
• You are the internal contact for analytical questions from different areas of the company
• You are an integral part of the team and, if necessary, represent the team's interests externally
• You support the continuous standardization and optimization of processes

Your Profile:

• You have successfully completed your studies in food chemistry or a comparable field with a focus on analytics (state examination, master's degree, diploma or PhD).
• Ideally, you have already gained 1-3 years of professional experience in analytics, authenticity analysis and food fraud topics in the food industry
• Your colleagues (m/f/d) appreciate your reliable, communicative and implementation-oriented way of working
• You manage to adequately communicate topics and convince your interlocutors, even in difficult situations
• Thanks to your open and communicative nature, you will quickly be able to build a professional and cross-departmental network
• You keep a cool head in stressful situations and show a high level of initiative
• You have high organizational skills as well as very good analytical and conceptual skills
• In addition to very good English skills, you are confident in common IT applications

Your Benefits

• Culture: Friendly and informal atmosphere, family-owned company, flat hierarchies, short communication channels, and helpful colleagues
• Impact: You are an integral part of our business success and make an important contribution to the future of nutrition
• Empowerment: You can fully unleash your potential and have the opportunity to take on responsibilities
• Digitalization: We maintain excellent partnerships with market-leading innovators, allowing you to access and work with state-of-the-art technologies
• Anniversary and special payments
• Employee referral bonuses
• Additional benefits: Christmas parties, events, financial benefits, and online shop discounts (e.g., IT leasing, mobile phone contracts, shopping, and travel discounts, etc.)

Equal opportunities for all

We welcome applicants, who are just as diverse as we are - regardless of age, ancestry, disability, ethnic origin, gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, social background or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Become a part of our team and apply online trough our career portal to the attention of Luisa Rhein. Please note that we are unable to consider or return application documents sent by mail.